March 7
March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (67th in
Leap years). There are 299 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. \n*1848 - The Great Mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii. \n*1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. \n*1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. \n*1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).\n*1911 - Revolution in Mexico \n*1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.\n*1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.\n*1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.\n*1945 - World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.\n*1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.\n*1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. \n*1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. \n*1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed "Bloody Sunday." \n*1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins. \n*1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered.\n*1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting. \n*1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.\n*1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.\n*1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.\n*1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed\n*2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympics Winter Games in Salt Lake City,Utah,USA.
Births
\n*189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor, (d. 211)\n*1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)\n*1746 - André Michaux, French botanist, (d. 1802)\n*1792 - John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer, (d. 1871)\n*1849 - Luther Burbank, biologist, botanist\n*1872 - Piet Mondrian, painter, (d. 1944)\n*1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer, (d. 1937)\n*1902 - Heinz Rühmann, actor, (d. 1994)\n*1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official, (d. 1942)\n*1908 - Anna Magnani, actress, (d. 1973)\n*1926 - Alan Sues, actir (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)\n*1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon\n*1934 - Willard Scott, television broadcaster\n*1938 - Janet Guthrie, automobile racer\n*1940 - Rudi Dutschke, student leader, (d. 1979)\n* 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, actor\n*1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, evangelist\n* 1942 - Michael Eisner, President of The Walt Disney Company\n*1945 - John Heard, actor\n*1946 - Peter Wolf, musician ("J Geils Band")\n*1947 - Walter Röhrl, car racer\n*1950 - Iris Chacon, famous Ruerto Rican singer and dancer\n*1960 - Joe Carter, baseball star\n* 1960 - Ivan Lendl, tennis player\n*1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, writer\n*1972 - Andrew Hurdis, mathematician, scholar
Deaths
\n*322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher, (b. 384 BC)\n*161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor, (b. 86)\n*851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany\n*1724 - Pope Innocent XIII, (b. 1655)\n*1932 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1926), (b. 1862)\n*1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru, (b. 1893)\n*1967 - Alice B. Toklas, personality, (b. 1877)\n*1988 - Divine, actor, (b. 1945)\n*1999 - Stanley Kubrick, film director, (b. 1928)\n*2002 - Doris Allen, founder of CISV organization (b. 1901)\n*2003 - Manfred Durniok, movie producer
Holidays and observances
\n* Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity\n* Judaism - Purim celebrated (2004)
March 6 -
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February 7 -
April 7 --
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